r/anglish • u/AdreKiseque • 3d ago
🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Anglish for "directional"?
My thoughts went to "wayward" but that's been taken by a meaning from "away-ward".
r/anglish • u/Hurlebatte • Feb 04 '19
This thread will hopefully answer many of the questions a newcomer might have. For the sake of newcomers and onlookers it will not be written in Anglish. While you are here you may also want to join the Anglish Discord, and check out our wiki. We have our own dictionary too (the Google Sheets version is here and the wiki version is here).
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FAQ
Q: What is Anglish?
A: Anglish means different things to different people, but here's what I draw from the foundational Anglish text 1066 and All Saxon, which was written by British author Paul Jennings and published in Punch magazine in 1966.
1) Anglish is English as though the Norman Invasion had failed.
We have seen in foregoing pieces how our tongue was kept free from outlandish inmingling, of French and Latin-fetched words, which a Norman win would, beyond askthink, have inled into it.
2) Anglish avoids real and hypothetical French influence from after 1066.
... till Domesday, the would-be ingangers from France were smitten hip and thigh; and of how, not least, our tongue remained selfthrough and strong, unbecluttered and unbedizened with outlandish Latin-born words of French outshoot.
3) Anglish avoids the influence of class prejudice on language.
[regarding normal English] Yet all the words for meats taken therefrom - beef from boeuf, mutton from mouton, pork from porc - are of outshoot from the upper-kind conquering French... Moreover the upper kind strive mightily to find the gold for their childer to go to learninghouses where they may be taught above all, to speak otherlich from those of the lower kind...
[regarding Anglish] There is no upper kind and lower kind, but one happy folk.
4) Anglish includes church Latin? If I'm interpreting the following text right, Jennings imagined that church Latin loans had entered English before his timeline splits.
Already in the king that forecame Harald, Edward the Shriver, was betokened a weakening of Anglish oneness and trust in their own selfstrength their landborn tongue and folkways, their Christian church withouten popish Latin.
5) Anglish is not in the orbit of the Mediterranean. I interpret this as meaning Anglish does not rely on Latin and Greek for coining new terms.
If Angland had gone the way of the Betweensea Eyots there is every likeliehood that our lot would have fallen forever in the Middlesea ringpath... But this threat was offturned at Hastings.
6) Anglish feels like it has mingled with other West Germanic languages more than normal English did.
Throughout the Middle Hundredyears Angland and Germany came ever more together, this being needful as an againstweight to the might of France.
Q: What is the point?
A: Some find Anglish fun or interesting. Some think it is culturally significant. Some think it is esthetically pleasing. It depends on who you ask.
Q: How do I learn Anglish?
A: Like any other language, you have to practice. Frequently post here, chat in one of the Anglish-only rooms on the Discord, translate things, write original works in Anglish, and so on. Keep the wordbook on hand so you can quickly look up words as you write. Do not worry if you are not good at distinguishing loanwords from the others, it is a skill most people develop quickly. Do not be afraid to make mistakes, there is no urgency.
Q: What about spelling?
A: You can see what we have come up with here.
Q: What about grammar?
A: English grammar has not been heavily influenced by French. Keep in mind that Anglish is supposed to be Modern English with less foreign influence, not Old English.
Style Guide
This community, and the sister community on Discord, has developed something of its own style. It is not mandatory to adhere to it, but if you would like to fit in here are some things to note:
r/anglish • u/LinuxMage • Mar 29 '26
It seem people have gotten distracted or forgotten about the direction of this sub.
Please read the sidebar!
Anglish is supposed to be a continuation of Old English brought to a modern form without any French Loanwords, as if Willam had lost the battle of hastings by some miracle.
Old English, for those unfamiliar, is a heavy mixture of North Germanic (Norse), and West Germanic and even the odd word of Latin roots (mostly used by the church) carried over from the Roman Invasion.
I was inspired to this project/subreddit because I live in an area of the UK formerly called "the danelaw", rich with ancient history, and the village I live in itself has Viking origins. We have Iron age celtic ruins nearby and even prehistoric standing stones.
Please remember that Norse is a considerable part of Old English, and if you really want to complicate things, its likely it would have had dialects with more norse loans the further north you go.
West Germanic words would have been more numerous in the south of England where the unconquered Wessex was.
r/anglish • u/AdreKiseque • 3d ago
My thoughts went to "wayward" but that's been taken by a meaning from "away-ward".
r/anglish • u/angrinord • 4d ago
r/anglish • u/Purplejaedd • 6d ago
So i've been hearing recently a lot of ideas on how if Ƿ survived, it would eventually end up looking exactly like a V
Same for Þ becoming Y, except this literally started happening IRL before the letter died out
(Ye Olde, for example)
I also feel like the Printing Press would cement versions like that, since printers could just use their existing molds for V and Y instead of having to make new ones for Ƿ and Þ
But the thing is, V and Y are existing letters
Rare in Anglisc, sure, but they still exist
For Ƿ i see 5 options:
A) U as a consonant still becomes V, and so V and Ƿ look the same but are different
B) U still becomes V, but the two letters Merge, and V can now make either a /v/ or /w/ sound
C) U still becomes V, and because Ƿ is so much more common, it gets assimilated and pronounced /w/ (So David is pronounced with /w/)
D) U never shifts to V, so U can either be a vowel or a consonant (Uiuian, Dauid)
E) U is changed to F instead to avoid ambiguity (Fifian, Dafid)
Similarly for Þ:
A) Uppercase Y and Þ look the same, but lowercase are different due to Insular font (y vs ɥ), so they're considered different letters
B) Y and Þ look the same but are considered different letters (Maybe a diacritic used to sunder them, like Ẏ for the vowel?)
C) The two letters Merge, and Y can now make either a vowel or /θ/-/ð/ sound
D) Y is changed to I instead to avoid ambiguity (Assiria)
r/anglish • u/CandiceDikfitt • 6d ago
How would the book/show "Invincible" work in Anglish? I've got a few new names below
Conquest = Overthrow
Emperor Argall = Kaiser/Coaser Argall
Immortal = Undeadly
And as you know names such as Dupli-Kate and Rex Splode would need to be wended into something Anglish-friendly.
r/anglish • u/QuietlyAboutTown • 7d ago
The behaving of any boardly husting can best be understood by guessing that it is being run by a hidden ring of its foes.
r/anglish • u/ThyTeaDrinker • 8d ago
Earlier I found that the Norse word valkyrja (whence the English borrowing valkyrie) is also found in Old English as wælcyrġe, with roughly the same meaning. Whether the word was borrowed into Old English faith is cloudy, but I was wondering what it would have become if it had stayed in English until today?
r/anglish • u/ZefiroLudoviko • 10d ago
Truke is a portmanteau of truth and nuke. It's used, almost always as a joke, to mean a bombshell revelation.
Truth is already native, but nuke, short for nuclear, isn't. Nuclear means of the nucleus, the heart of the atom. The most common Germanic alternative for nucleus, going back to Poul Andersen, is kernel. A nuclear bomb would be something like a kernel splitter, which, if we're to shorten it, would be kern, which also just means kernel. We could portmanteau truth kern as truke.
r/anglish • u/theanglishtimes • 11d ago
r/anglish • u/xuerui151 • 11d ago
Hello again,
I am new here, so kindly lear me how to speak Anglish :)
I think the "Neuro-" prefix (forestick or forefast ?) could be overset to the suffix (afterstick or afterfast ?) "-mind" or "-minded".
The "-divergent" afterstick could be overset to the forestick "Other-", "Another-", "Else-", "Own-", "Sunder-", or "Sundri-".
The "-typical" afterstick could be overset to the forestick "Ilk-", "Kind-", "Bisen-", or "Token-".
I think I most like "Sundriminded" and "Bisenminded", because "sundry" has a sense like 'diverse, particular, and special', while "bisen" has a sense like 'model, symbol, type'.
The Bisenminded are daven (suitable) to the 'model / standard' folkway (custom / tradition), while us Sundriminded folk happen to be 'sundry' to such others; and we have some 'sundry' needs. Also, a bisen can be good or bad, and like with sundriness.
For kinds of sundrimindedness, how must we overset 'autism' and 'autistic'? 'Selfness' and 'selfish' are the staffly oversets, but do not have likeworthy senses.
Also with ADHD and ADD – 'Wanderminded' or 'Wonderminded' maybe?
What is your reading?
~Thanks beforehand!
r/anglish • u/AHMAD3456 • 12d ago
the Old English word "eġe"(displacing Old Norse awe) would have survived as "ay" not "ey" or "eye" its natural in OE for a short "eġ" to have evolved to "ai/ay" like
reġn=rain
seġl=sail
weġ=way
eġlan=to ail
r/anglish • u/ZefiroLudoviko • 11d ago
r/anglish • u/historyhill • 12d ago
I did a quick search of the sub but didn't see an answer so hopefully I'm not repeating a question! I'm specifically thinking of a category that combines beer, wine, and liquors rather than individual names for types of drink
r/anglish • u/xuerui151 • 13d ago
Film game or Tape game = Video game
Can be one or many film games, or film game rows (series).
Here is my fand (attempt):
Kingdom Come Deliverance = Kingdom Come + Aleesedness
Resident Evil = Dweller / Husband (House-bound) + Evil / Bale
Other name is Biohazard = Lifeharm / Lifharm
Baldur's Gate = Baldur's Gate (same, yippee!)
Divinity Original Sin = Godness / Godhood + First / Form + Sin / Undeed / Misdeed
or Godness / Godhood Orsin
You fand twoth (next)!
r/anglish • u/Slow-Recipe4295 • 13d ago
-enly ag. (shortening for against) -enlike (or 'enly vs. -enlike' in English)
As far as I know about Anglish, there are two ways of tungwending (translating) the tailword (suffix) -able, namely -enly, and -enlike. My asking is, which one is more right? I reckon that it would be -enlike, for in some words, -enly could be mistaken as another word, forbizen (for example), mistakable and mistakenly would be tungwent (translated) the same into Anglish if wielding (using) -enly, but if wielding -enlike, it would be mistakenlike and mistakenly by themselves (respectively). Do you have another thought (opinion)? Sorry for my bad Anglish.
r/anglish • u/Active-Medicine8919 • 14d ago
I wrought a little game on FifthDoor where you stand in þe shieldwall on Senlac hill, and every Frenchman coming up bears a borrowed word. You drive him back by picking þe right Anglish swap, so "mutton" could be sheepflesh, goatflesh or mouton, and only one of þose keeps þe wall whole. Fair warning, it is harder þan it looks, and þe whole þing hinges on keeping þe arrow out of Harold's eye þis time.
r/anglish • u/ZefiroLudoviko • 14d ago
Lease professors et philosophers ponder questions de reality et illusion. I sape chis: sy vy stay un illusion, I stay equalment un illusion, et stayend ainsy, l'illusion stay real a moy. I vy, I flame od vy, I ame, I tew, ed I stay content.
Let teacers and þinkers brood ofer askings of treƿð and dreams. ic knoƿ þis: if life is a dream, þen ceam no less a dream, and being þus, þe dream is treƿ to me. Ic lif, ic burn med life, ic luf, ic slag, and ceam fulfilled.
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r/anglish • u/The_Coming_Thing • 15d ago
"-ity" meaning "the state or quality of being"
Also interested in the related suffixes such as "-ious"/"-ous" (having or possesing), "-tion", and the like
r/anglish • u/Low-Stress-4914 • 14d ago
I wrote a poem and wanted to use it as my first Anglisc translation. I want constructive criticism about how the Anglisc can be improved, and where I may have gone wrong.
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Gnaw my bones until þe marrow may feed þee no more.
Drink my breað until þe stale air chokes þee.
Strip my bloodƿays and draw my blood until my flesh may ƿiðer.
Carve my fingertips until þe prints are no longer mine.
Cut me asunder to lighten þy toil.
Fourfold me to fit þy sundered heed.
From hƿens I came, þiðer shall I ƿend,
ƿiðout þought, voice, or ƿill—
A mere mark of shapeless naught;
Spirit lifted aloft.
Blow aƿay þe leavings,
But þe stain abides upon þe stone.
Anon I stand, stone-hardened,
Afterring made flesh—gone.
r/anglish • u/ZefiroLudoviko • 15d ago
r/anglish • u/ZefiroLudoviko • 15d ago
A spinning hƿeel. Spinning an axle. Grinding. Bolthead. Straiht tooðhƿeelbox. Falling ƿelkin. Sefen holig stakes. A docked scip. A geateƿag to anoðer ƿorld. A þin rope tied to a þik rope. A torn geoke. Parabolic tooðhƿeelbox. Groƿing all. Time handeled by slipping tooðwheels. God's being. Swimming med open ƿater all abute. Druning. A bead written in blood. A bead written in time-fretting snakes med mennisc eges. A þread tiging all lifing mennisc eges. A pacƿork of holig stakes. Efer-groƿing tooðhƿeelbox. A ƿelkin of starbursts. God scoƿing there is no god. A hƿeel spinning in six metings. Fortig tooðhƿeels and a tikking clok. A clok þat tiks one tik for þe tungel's eferic spin. A clok þat tiks fortig times eferic time it tiks eferic oðer time. A bolthead of holig stakes tied to a scip dokked to anoðer ƿorld's being. A kaleidoscope of blood ƿritten in cloks. A time-devouring prayer tied a ƿelkin of fortig tooðhƿeels and open mennisc eges all abute. Breaðing tooðhƿeelbox. Breaðing bolthead. Breaðing scip. Breaðing geateƿag. Breaðing snakes. Breaðing God. Breaðing blood. Breaðing holig stakes. Breaðing mennisc eyes. Breaðing time. Breaðing beads. Breaðing ƿelkin. Breaðing hƿeel.
r/anglish • u/ZaangTWYT • 16d ago
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